[[Explain why it's bad idea. Always. Point to Friedl RE, link to REs, refer to Perl FAQ, and ...]] HALLO DIT IS CHRIS Pertinent Perl stuff: * ASPN Cookbook 68432 http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Rx/Recipe/68432 * lyris.com validator http://www.lyris.com/help/HowdoIvalidateEmailAddressesinmyPerlprograms_.html * miscellaneous CPAN stuff, including Mail::RFC822::Address [Don Libes] wrote "Authentication by Email Reception" [http://www.nist.gov/msidlibrary/doc/libes96b.pdf] to describe "use of email addresses as an authentication mechanism ... [[which]] provides reasonable security at very low cost ..." [tcllib] / [mime] contains commands (mime::parseaddress, mostly) to parse email addresses. ---- But mime::parseaddress fails on simple, common cases. Specifically, it fails for some fairly typical user input: somebody@some.org,someoneelse@other.com is OK but mime::parseaddress seems unable to deal with somebody@some.org someoneelse@other.com Then, when I try to stress it and send mail to foo<>bar@grill.com The parse "succeeds" but the send fails. -- [CLN] ---- Please report such things as either bugs or feature requests at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883 (tcllib trackers)